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General Software Discussion / Re: Undelete - am I missing something?

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2008, 04:14 AM »

From what I understand, you are looking at the raw view of the recycle bin. (are you using xyplorer?)

-jgpaiva (July 02, 2008, 03:58 AM)

Total Commander actually, but yes, raw view.

All the files present there, can be found on the recycle bin (in a much more interesting form ).
If you remove the files from recycle bin, they disappear from the Recycler folder.

Aaauuuggghhh!  I am covered in confusion   

Many thanks!   

I don't often look at the desktop, launching things by other means.  I just made a shortcut to the Recycle bin and put it in my Popsel menu, so I don't have to minimise everything else and go looking for the icon.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Middle click without using scrollwheel button

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2008, 04:05 AM »

 I run PowerPro, and don't know if this is PowerPro-specific.  Under PowerPro, shift-left-click works as if it were middle-click.  That's what I've been doing for ages.

In fact, I've just this minute realised that the scrollwheel doubles as the apparently missing middle mouse button...   


edit by jgpaiva: fixed powerpro link
edit2 by jgpaiva: really fixed the powerpro link.. Last time i replaced it by www.powerpro.com Sorry!

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General Software Discussion / Injecting HTML into Outlook?

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2008, 03:35 AM »

At work we have to use Outlook, the full version, not Express.  I have it set to plain-text e-mails but occasionally I need fancier formatting.  If I have a pre-existing HTML page, is there any way I can get it into Outlook as an HTML message?  All I seem to get is the plain text, or HTML as code that doesn't render.  I was somehow expecting to be able to drag and drop, or mark a piece and copy it into Outlook like you can from a browser into EverNote.

TIA...

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General Software Discussion / Undelete - am I missing something?

« Last post by rjbull on July 02, 2008, 03:30 AM »

On WinXP, if I look in c:\Recycler I find several enigmatically-named subdirectories, all containing desktop.ini and INFO2.  The latter looks like an index.  Eventually, I find the subdirectory that contains deleted files with their names changed to "Dcnnn.{ext}" where the original extension is retained.  - hmmm...  Dc?   

If the deleted files are still there, renamed, and there's an index, is there really not an undelete function built into Windows?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: XYplorer 7.30 has been released on 30-Jun-2008

« Last post by rjbull on July 01, 2008, 05:33 AM »

Quick File Compare. Check out with a single click whether two files are same or different.

-rjbull (July 01, 2008, 03:20 AM)

Yaaah!

-tomos (July 01, 2008, 03:41 AM)

I thought that would please somebody     And how nice to see author DonL responding so fast to requests   

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« Last post by rjbull on July 01, 2008, 03:24 AM »

Evernote has moved on to be a web application.  So the standalone version that we're still using is discontinued.  That's all I meant.

-superboyac (June 30, 2008, 10:09 AM)

OK, I see what you mean, thanks.  I certainly have no plans to move to a Web-based application.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / XYplorer 7.30 has been released on 30-Jun-2008

« Last post by rjbull on July 01, 2008, 03:20 AM »

XYplorer 7.30 has been released on 30-Jun-2008. Here's a quick introduction to the main new features:

After two years of continuous development Catalog-Based Browsing finally takes over: Now you can hide and switch off the Tree by a quick Shift+F8, and browse via Catalog only.

Quick File Compare. Check out with a single click whether two files are same or different.

Support for Hard Link creation. The new command is located in the Paste Special menu.

List Management: Now you can move items to new list positions via drag-n-drop. Big plus in usability.

In version 7.20 the mouse wheel did not always work depending on the manufacturer. Fixed.

New command "Open Folders in Tabs" allows you to easily switch sets of tabs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« Last post by rjbull on June 30, 2008, 09:07 AM »

A nice extra feature of EverNote is that if you put two terms in the search box, it treats them as a Boolean AND, highlighting the search strings in different colours.  Boolean searching is valuable to me.

-rjbull (June 27, 2008, 09:13 AM)

Aww!!  I never realized that!  That kicks butt!  Evernote was such a great program.

-superboyac (June 27, 2008, 10:51 AM)

It's a great feature!  But... it "was" a great program?  It still works here...

AZZ was the very first program that I noticed the feature in years ago.  But it only searched the titles of the cards, not the entire database.

That seems to me AZZ's greatest limitation.  The Web site has quite a few user-submitted cardfiles, and the ones that seem to me most successful are the simplest ones.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« Last post by rjbull on June 27, 2008, 09:13 AM »

Following the link to here in the MyLifeOrganized review update:

A nice extra feature of EverNote is that if you put two terms in the search box, it treats them as a Boolean AND, highlighting the search strings in different colours.  Boolean searching is valuable to me.

Another simple card file with what looks to me very good live search, which they call it Filter-on-typing:  AZZ Cardfile.  It holds the data on disk and the index in memory for fast search and sensible retrieval.  Interesting claim:

Cards limit should be around 2,000,000,000 - be the first to try it. Each card can hold any amount of data, it is limited only by system memory resources. We have tested cardfile with 100,000 cards, size of one card was over 10 MB.

The last free version, which works entirely in memory, can be found here.  Keep paging down to "Old versions" at the bottom of the page.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Take Command Console LE from JPSoft

« Last post by rjbull on June 23, 2008, 04:21 AM »

Here's another one: ColorConsole, freeware from the author of the Q-Dir file manager.  Won't automatically load Tame-DOS, but has tabbed windows.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: Seriously, what is MicroEd good for?

« Last post by rjbull on June 20, 2008, 04:13 AM »

using the keyboard is easier and faster for us

-superboyac (June 19, 2008, 06:08 PM)

That's part of why I want my own favourite text editor: being one of the galaxy's Elder Race from Planet DOS, I like WordStar controls, the ultimate in keyboard-centric applications.  WordStar is the True Faith as far as getting text onto disk is concerned.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone know of webmail that will filter and forward?

« Last post by rjbull on June 20, 2008, 03:59 AM »

i wouldnt reccomend gmx as it is very slow, and opens alot of new windows (not tabs) seemed to force a new window

-yotta (June 19, 2008, 10:26 AM)

I haven't found it slow, but agree about the windows.  It's Java, I think, seems a bit overcomplicated, and doesn't work as well as it might with non-standard browsers like K-Meleon.  However, all you have to do is set up GMX once, then pick up your mail by POP3 or whatever.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone know of webmail that will filter and forward?

« Last post by rjbull on June 19, 2008, 09:19 AM »

I think GMX can do this, but haven't had the account long and haven't specifically tried filtering and forwarding.  However, both appear to be there in the settings.  GMX has only recently reappeared in the UK, but they're long-established elsewhere and said to be good.

In addition to your 5 GB mail storage capacity, GMX File Storage gives you another 1 GB of space for your documents and media.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Typing Assistant 3.1 is free on GAOTD again today, Thursday 19 June 2008.

« Last post by rjbull on June 19, 2008, 03:37 AM »

Typing Assistant 3.1 is free on GAOTD again today, Thursday 19 June 2008.

Earlier DC thread - it was last on GAOTD on February 24, 2008 - is here.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Typing Assistant - Free at GAOTD

« Last post by rjbull on June 19, 2008, 03:32 AM »

Typing Assistant 3.1 is free on GAOTD again today, Thursday 19 June 2008.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: Seriously, what is MicroEd good for?

« Last post by rjbull on June 19, 2008, 03:32 AM »

I just wish TB! would let you define your own text editor    I was a "point" on Fidonet for ten years, using the mighty GoldED, and while GoldED had a rudimentary text editor built in, for normal messages I preferred to use my favourite text editor VDE under it.  I fail to see why Windows programs can't do the same   

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Finished Programs / Re: AltTab Fingertips v1.3 - 14 Jan 08

« Last post by rjbull on June 18, 2008, 09:10 AM »

rjBull the menu should always comeup at your mouse pointer, so that minimal mouse-travel is needed to use it. Do you find that is not the case or not logical for you?

-justice (June 18, 2008, 06:03 AM)

I'm a keyboard person, not a mouser, most definitely not THE mouser(!)     but I use a mixture of console-mode and WinGUI programs.  So I sometimes have to move the mouse around, then wonder why ATF has moved too.

Maybe there's a script somwhere that automatically parks the mouse pointer at a given location after so many seconds mouse inactivity?

I like your dismiss hotkey feature too

@ur1sn00per: maybe that makes it clearer?  I use F12 as the hotkey, which is at the opposite end of the top row from Esc.  Alt+Tab is a left-hand-only action.  Using F12 and Esc needs both hands.  Just a minor ergonomic point.

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Finished Programs / Re: AltTab Fingertips v1.3 - 14 Jan 08

« Last post by rjbull on June 18, 2008, 04:40 AM »

+1 for icon display.

Two more thoughts/requests:

• Could its screen location be locked, so that it always appears in the same place on the screen?  At present it seems to move around a bit, and I'd rather know in advance where to look for it.
• Could the hotkey be a toggle?  That is, suppose you press the hotkey and the ATF menu comes up, and you didn't want to do that.  Could pressing the hotkey a second time while the menu is on screen be made to dismiss the menu?  I know Esc dismisses it, but Esc might be far away on the keyboard from your chosen hotkey.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let go of your bookmarks!

« Last post by rjbull on June 17, 2008, 05:05 AM »

I'll send an e-mail to myself, or someone I think would be interested in the site, containing a link and a short description along with some keywords (tags, basically) to make it easy to search for--years later from right within my Gmail.

-Deozaan (June 16, 2008, 11:58 PM)

That's a good idea.  I often keep a few notes in MemPad, even if nowhere else.  Despite Google, it seems to me worthwhile to keep original links somewhere, because Web pages can disappear.  If you have their original location, you have more chance of recovering them from the Wayback Machine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let go of your bookmarks!

« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2008, 10:39 AM »

Some of my bookmarks are in KeePass, because it's convenient for sites that require logins.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Character Table Plug-In

« Last post by rjbull on June 16, 2008, 10:38 AM »

Check for (plugin) updates goes through the DCUpdater, which does not work for me because it won't go through proxy.pac proxies.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rightnote, commercial alternative to abandonware Keynote

« Last post by rjbull on June 13, 2008, 04:52 AM »

I think synching might refer to the purpose of their other product, Compare Advance.  They haven't laid out their Web page clearly enough.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Take Command v9 New $20 off, Upgrade $10 off,TC/LE $10 off

« Last post by rjbull on June 12, 2008, 04:32 AM »

the price is steep

-Darwin (June 11, 2008, 05:28 PM)

That's one of the reasons I never got it.  I had a long-ago copy of 4DOS that was lost when the computer was replaced, but instead of updating 4DOS I used a copy of Eric Taucke's Toddy (freeware, but Web site gone now) which gave me all the functionality of 4DOS I really wanted.  Being a DOS program, it doesn't understand LFNs, though...  Pity.  And now that Microsoft has "helpfully" include DOSKEY with every command prompt, it's not very usable anyway because DOSKEY - which apparently can't be unloaded - seizes control.

To clarify, the system I had the trial running on is a first generation Centrino running at 1.4Ghz with 2GB RAM on a 5400 rpm 2.5" harddrive. Not a speed demon but not exactly obsolete, either.

Out of the blue, I just sort of wondered, how many other applications did you have running?   

PromptPal takes 3 seconds as stated (just timed it) and TCC9 was slightly longer, so say 5 seconds to load (I didn't time it when I had it installed and am not interested in installing it again to time it now). I just timed PowerCMD as well and it opened in under a second.

I'd really like to see a comparison of the features of these three, along with Console.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: Compare contents of two RAR archives as if they were directories

« Last post by rjbull on June 11, 2008, 09:56 AM »

Not free: WinMount

-4wd (June 10, 2008, 09:10 PM)

No kidding!  Either $49 for a personal license, or, an eyewatering $999 for a site license, the only kind of commercial license?  Phew...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: [bug report] Plist Plugin

« Last post by rjbull on June 11, 2008, 03:23 AM »

Please download the latest via DcUpdater.

-taichimaster (June 10, 2008, 03:42 PM)

Please give us a normal link as well.  The DCUpdater does not work through proxy.pac-type proxies (not unless it's been updated, anyway).